How Has Church Impacted Medical Science
How has the church threatened medical science?
In the beginning there was a prohibition against anyone other than a Doctor of Theology making pronouncements on that subject and many unsuccessful attempts to ensure medical work was carried out only by qualified physicians. The church has hindered medicine because it taught superstitious causes; the ancient greeks had looked for rational explanations. The church taught the opposite - that there were supernatural explanations for everything. People believed that God, the Devil, or the planets controlled their lives (Murray, 152). People believed that their lives were controlled by spiritual gods and the church would emphasize these beliefs in order to maintain the scriptures and beliefs relevant and maintain science beliefs irrelevant.The church also obstructed medicine in the medieval period because they taught supernatural causes for example illnesses and conditions miraculously healed by Jesus in the Bible. Usually he …show more content…
Roger Bacon - a thirteenth century priest suggested, that a new approach to medicine was needed. He said that doctors should do their own original research instead of learning from the books of ancient writers such as Galen (O’Leary 20). Doing their own research would give a chance for discoveries to be made and for changes to adhere. Church leaders put him in prison for heresy. This nineteenth century engravings shows him smuggling his work out of prison (French 184). The non-improvement of medicine is shown by how dissection was banned by the Church until the fourteenth century. The church allowed only one dead body a year to be used, so the students spent most their time reading Galen's books (Grant 71).The catholic church taught that it was part of people's religious duty to care for the sick but it was not until the 1100s that it actually took many practical measures to encourage this
In the beginning there was a prohibition against anyone other than a Doctor of Theology making pronouncements on that subject and many unsuccessful attempts to ensure medical work was carried out only by qualified physicians. The church has hindered medicine because it taught superstitious causes; the ancient greeks had looked for rational explanations. The church taught the opposite - that there were supernatural explanations for everything. People believed that God, the Devil, or the planets controlled their lives (Murray, 152). People believed that their lives were controlled by spiritual gods and the church would emphasize these beliefs in order to maintain the scriptures and beliefs relevant and maintain science beliefs irrelevant.The church also obstructed medicine in the medieval period because they taught supernatural causes for example illnesses and conditions miraculously healed by Jesus in the Bible. Usually he …show more content…
Roger Bacon - a thirteenth century priest suggested, that a new approach to medicine was needed. He said that doctors should do their own original research instead of learning from the books of ancient writers such as Galen (O’Leary 20). Doing their own research would give a chance for discoveries to be made and for changes to adhere. Church leaders put him in prison for heresy. This nineteenth century engravings shows him smuggling his work out of prison (French 184). The non-improvement of medicine is shown by how dissection was banned by the Church until the fourteenth century. The church allowed only one dead body a year to be used, so the students spent most their time reading Galen's books (Grant 71).The catholic church taught that it was part of people's religious duty to care for the sick but it was not until the 1100s that it actually took many practical measures to encourage this